. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . striking thehawse pipe, was deflected and went through the Varunas smokestack. A second shot through this hole in the Governor Moores bows disabledthe Varunas pivot gun, and then it was that the Confederate craft rammedthe Federal vessel, disabling her engines and doing such damage to her hullthat she was headed for shoal water in order that she might be beached, but 696 THE STORY OF before even so much of safety could be gained, the Conf
. The story of American heroism; thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great Civil war, as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men . striking thehawse pipe, was deflected and went through the Varunas smokestack. A second shot through this hole in the Governor Moores bows disabledthe Varunas pivot gun, and then it was that the Confederate craft rammedthe Federal vessel, disabling her engines and doing such damage to her hullthat she was headed for shoal water in order that she might be beached, but 696 THE STORY OF before even so much of safety could be gained, the Confederate ram, Stone-wall Jackson, made of her a still more complete wreck, and in the merestfraction of time she went to the bottom, leaving her crew struggling in thewater. As young Woram says in his letter, he was picked up by the Oneida, butnot until he had been swimming around fifteen or twenty minutes, with theshot of the enemy lashing the water into foam close behind him, and liy that time it is safe to say the l)oy hadcome to the conclusion that life inthe merchant service was certainlymore comfortable, and far less dan-gerou5, than in the The Governor Moore Firing Into the Varuna Through Her Own Bow. According to the testimony of the officers of the Oneida, however, he didhis duty like a veteran seaman. One would have fancied from his generalbehavior after having been rescued, that he had served a full apprenticeshipin v;arfare, and such trifling matters as having his vessel sunk from underhim was an everyday occurrence. Probably the most terrible experience which any human being couldhave, was Worams during the battle of Mobile Bay on board the Oneida, AMERICAN HEROISM 697 when her boilers exploded after her wheel had been shot away, and he wasforced to see the engineer and his assistants racing around the deck in theirdying agonies, having been scalded until the flesh was literally hanging inshreds from their bones. It was such a scene as will hardly bear the te
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